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Entranced by the Factory

Simon Schaffer

  • The Natural Philosophy of James Clerk Maxwell by P.M. Harman

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Simon Schaffer teaches the history of science at Cambridge. His collection of essays on inquiry and invention from the Renaissance to early industrialisation, co-edited with Lissa Roberts and Peter Dear, is due next year.

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Dear Prudence
Steven Shapin on Stephen Toulmin

‘I merely belong to them’
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First Impressions
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